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From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward:FOUR SISTERS, SEPARATED BY HISTORY, BOUND BY THE SEA'Beautiful and magnificent' Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE'A profoundly moving and rich historical story wrapped up in a contemporary murder mystery' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANWhen Lucy arrives at her sister's house in a wild panic, she doesn't find the solace she's desperately seeking - only an abandoned house, in a town steeped in mystery.As Lucy searches for her sister, instead she uncovers tales of missing men. Stories of women drowned just off the coast two hundred years before. Rumours of their voices on the waves.Can the voices lead Lucy to her sister - or are they trying to pull them both under?'I can't wait to see what Emilia Hart writes next' Kate MortonREADERS ARE SAYING...'This book is a beauty. A real hidden gem. Beautifully woven storytelling' ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿'I devoured this book in a few days, desperate to get the next piece of the puzzle' ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿'There are few reads that leave me completely speechless and this is one of them' ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿'A truly captivating book' ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Emilia Hart's book 'The Sirens' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-02-17.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¿ USA TODAY BESTSELLER<BR>WINNER OF TWO GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS (Best Debut Novel & Best Historical Fiction)<BR><BR>An Indie Next March 2023 Pick ¿ A LibraryReads March 2023 Pick ¿ An Amazon "Best Books of the Year So Far" 2023 Pick<BR><BR>"A brave and original debut, Weyward is a spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural world collides with a legacy of witchcraft." --Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The London Séance Society<BR><BR>I am a Weyward, and wild inside.<BR><BR>2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great-aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she suspects that her great-aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.<BR><BR>1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. When Altha was a girl, her mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence of witchcraft is laid out against Altha, she knows it will take all her powers to maintain her freedom.<BR><BR>1942: As World War II rages, Violet is trapped in her family's grand, crumbling estate. Straitjacketed by societal convention, she longs for the robust education her brother receives--and for her mother, long deceased, who was rumored to have gone mad before her death. The only traces Violet has of her are a locket bearing the initial W and the word weyward scratched into the baseboard of her bedroom.<BR><BR>Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an astonishing debut, and an enthralling novel of female resilience.

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward:FOUR SISTERS, SEPARATED BY HISTORY, BOUND BY THE SEA'Beautiful and magnificent' Jennifer Saint, author of ARIADNE'A profoundly moving and rich historical story wrapped up in a contemporary murder mystery' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHANWhen Lucy arrives at her sister's house in a wild panic, she doesn't find the solace she's desperately seeking - only an abandoned house, in a town steeped in mystery.As Lucy searches for her sister, instead she uncovers tales of missing men. Stories of women drowned just off the coast two hundred years before. Rumours of their voices on the waves.Can the voices lead Lucy to her sister - or are they trying to pull them both under?'I can't wait to see what Emilia Hart writes next' Kate MortonREADERS ARE SAYING...'This book is a beauty. A real hidden gem. Beautifully woven storytelling' ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿'I devoured this book in a few days, desperate to get the next piece of the puzzle' ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿'There are few reads that leave me completely speechless and this is one of them' ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿'A truly captivating book' ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Emilia Hart's book 'The Sirens' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-02-17.

EMILIA HART'S STUNNING NEW BOOK THE SIRENSIS OUT NOWTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLEROVER 700,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEAs seen on BBC's BETWEEN THE COVERS'A bewitching debut. I can't wait to see what Emilia Hart writes next' KATE MORTON'A much-heralded epic' OBSERVER'Empowering' GLAMOURThree women, five centuries, one spellbinding storyIn the present day, Kate flees a traumatic relationship to the Cumbrian cottage she inherited from her great-aunt; but the cottage hides secrets of its own.In 1942, Violet rebels against her father's ideas of a 'proper young lady' ... until he takes matters into his own hands.In 1619, Altha is on trial for witchcraft, implicated in the gruesome death of a local man.Three women they tried to cage - but Weyward women belong to the wild. And they cannot be tamed...Weyward was a Timesbestseller w/e 18-02-2023.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¿ A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK ¿ #1 LibraryReads Pick ¿ Indie Next Pick<BR><BR>A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward<BR><BR>2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover's throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister's house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack-but Jess is nowhere to be found.<BR><BR>As Lucy awaits her return, the rumors surrounding Jess's strange small town start to emerge. Numerous men have gone missing at sea, spread over decades. A tiny baby was found hidden in a cave. And sailors tell of hearing women's voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy finds and begins to read her sister's adolescent diary.<BR><BR>1999: Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them-and in her-that no one else has.<BR><BR>1800: Twin sisters Mary and Eliza have been torn from their loving father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. For their entire lives, they've feared the ocean, as their mother tragically drowned when they were just girls. Yet as the boat bears them further and further from all they know, they begin to notice changes in their bodies that they can't explain, and they feel the sea beginning to call to them...<BR><BR>A breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, The Sirens captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea.

Están separadas por el tiempo,ápero unidas por el mar...2019: Lucy se despierta de un sueño y le está agarrandoáel cuello a su ex con las manos. Horrorizada, huye haciaála casa de su hermana mayor, en un pueblecito costeroáde Australia, con la esperanza de que la ayude a entenderála extraña y realista pesadilla que precedió el ataque...áPero Jess no está por ninguna parte.áMientras Lucy espera a que regrese, los rumores que rodeanáel extraño pueblecito empiezan a salir a la superficie. Muchosáhombres han desaparecido en el mar a lo largoáde varias décadas, encontraron a un bebé en una cuevaáy los marineros cuentan que se oyen voces de mujeres entreálas olas. Desesperada por obtener respuestas,áLucy encuentra el diario de su hermana de cuandoáera adolescente y comienza a leerlo.1999: Jess es una joven solitaria de dieciséis años que viveáen un pueblo en el centro del país. Diagnosticada con unaáextraña alergia al agua, siempre se ha sentido diferente, hastaáque su joven y encantador profesor de arte se interesa en susádibujos, ya que ve en ellos (y en ella) un poder y una madurezáque nadie más tiene.á1800: Mary y Eliza son dos hermanas gemelas que se hanátenido que separar de su amado padre en Irlanda y seáhan visto obligadas a subir a un barco de convictas rumbo aáAustralia. Siempre han temido al océano, pues cuando eranápequeñas su madre murió ahogada. Sin embargo,áa medida que el barco las aleja de todo lo que conocen,áempiezan a notar cambios en su cuerpo queáno consiguen explicar y tienen la sensaciónáde que el mar las está llamando...'Cautivadora...áMe hizo lloraráen el andén del tren'.á-BRIDGET COLLINS,áautora de Los ecos del silencio'La narrativa de Emilia Hart es poderosa yácamaleónica: inteligente, sugerente, familiar,ámística y sumamente evocadora.áLeer sus novelas es recordar que, en cualquierámomento, podemos agarrar el toro porálos cuernos y que nuestras voces pueden serámuy poderosas si las alzamos con rotundidad'.á-HOLLY RINGWALD,áautora best seller internacionalá'Llena de encanto y repleta de secretosáocultos, Las sirenas es una novela bellamenteáescrita y totalmente cautivadora'.á-EVIE WOODS, autora de La librería perdida,ábest seller del Sunday Times